Reporters

Raymond Depardon
1981-06-10


6.944
97 min

The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photographers in Paris and their subjects by following the photographers around for one month, in October, 1980. In-between long hours waiting for a celebrity to emerge from a restaurant or a hotel, boredom immediately switches to fast action as the cameras click and roll when the person appears. The reaction to the gaggle of photographers is as varied as the people they often literally chase all around town. While some of the celebrities, such as Jacques Chirac who was mayor of Paris at the time, are perceived as comical caricatures, others are shown simply going about ordinary pursuits - including Catherine Deneuve, Gene Kelly, and Jean-Luc Godard.

Cast

Name Character Team
Jacques Chirac Self Unowned
Jean-Luc Godard Self Unowned
Richard Gere Self The Free Refills
Ursula Andress Self Unowned
Francis Apestéguy Self Unowned
Serge Gainsbourg Self Unowned
Raymond Barre Self Unowned
Jean-Gabriel Barthélémy Self Unowned
Omar Bongo Self Unowned
Mireille Darc Self Unowned
Alain Delon Self Unowned
Catherine Deneuve Self The Free Refills
Gene Kelly Self Unowned
Mireille Mathieu Self Unowned
Georges Marchais self Unowned
François Mitterrand self Unowned
Michel Rocard self Unowned
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing self Unowned
Coluche self Unowned
Vaclav Neumann self Unowned
Philippe de Gaulle Self Unowned